. >> reporter: dr. peter gross says the latest strain of h1n1 will likely spread quickly. >> you're going to find it erywhere. you'll find it on doorknobs, you'll find it on telephones. >> reporter: administrators at schools across the country are doing what they can to fight the flu. here in new york, they plan to give out free vaccines as soon as they become available. >> our current plan is to offer them to students in every elementary school in the city, public and private. >> reporter: one long island school district is taking drastic measures, saying no to hand holding, chest bumps, and high fives. >> the high fives, i think, just to cut down on the transmission, it's probably a good idea. i think it's a good way to prevent. >> reporter: in chicago, hand sanitizers fill the classrooms and hand washing at least twice a day is mandatory. with a new school year starting, america is trying to find a way to close the book on h1n1, or at least make it a short story. drew levinson, cbs news, new york. >>> stra

flu has infected hundreds if not thousands of marylanders including howard county health officer dr. peter bielensen and his daughter. >> we had almost assuredly h1n1, typical flu-like symptoms, 101 temperature, body aches, cough, lasted for five or six days. >> reporter: at its peak the university of maryland college park had almost 100 students report flu-like symptoms in a single day. but now that number is down to less than a dozen per day. and they are also recovering in a matter of days. >> it clearly is quite widespread but it's nowhere near as severe as people had feared. >> reporter: still on this day the state's deputy health secretary frances phillips is cautioning the public not to let its guard down. >> now certainly like the doctor and many others able to recover very promptly that is great. but you can't tell who it is that is going to have serious consequences. we know that pregnant women, we know that children, people, adults with serious medical conditions, these are people who very easily can run into serious trouble with this virus. >> reporter: adding to the state's wo

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dr. peters against accepting high dose chemotherapy without independent validation.e was ostracized by his colleagues. dr. peters, the one who invented this treatment, became concerned enough that in 1991, and he convinced the national cancer institute to fund a clinical trial to make sure that his treatment was safe. five different clinical trials were presented in the summer of 1999 at the annual meeting. those five clinical trials found no advantages and out comes between conventional treatment and high dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplant. what was the price? roughly 42,000 women, 30,000 in the 1990's alone were subjected to the risk of this entirely experimental treatment. 34 $4 billion was spent. they later determined that 9000 patients died not from their cancer but from the treatment that they hope to be their cure. that is why comparative effectiveness research is important. that is why it is important to make sure that we have in this bill in the unbiased language. >> we've had a lot of debate on this. >> who seeks recognition? >> i do. i would ask

dr. peters against accepting high dose chemotherapy without independent validation.was ostracized by his colleagues. dr. peters, the one who invented this treatment, became concerned enough that in 1991, and he convinced the national cancer institute to fund a clinical trial to make sure that his treatment was safe. five different clinical trials were presented in the summer of 1999 at the annual meeting. those five clinical trials found no advantages and out comes between conventional treatment and high dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplant. what was the price? roughly 42,000 women, 30,000 in the 1990's alone were subjected to the risk of this entirely experimental treatment. 34 $4 billion was spent. they later determined that 9000 patients died not from their cancer but from the treatment that they hope to be their cure. that is why comparative effectiveness research is important. that is why it is important to make sure that we have in this bill in the unbiased language. >> we've had a lot of debate on this. >> who seeks recognition? >> i do. i would ask y

dr. peters you have done an excellent job in terms of getting this program started. i thank you for your support. and i thank you, mr. blair, for all that you have done to ensure we have the intelligence community right at the tip of the sword. and i know what that means. so thank you for all of our presidents and most assuredly our students who are the beneficiaries to this type of support. thank you and have a great day. >> great. i thank you all of you very ch. alsohe colleagues and university that are joining us this year and those who will be joining us in the future. i think this is the right thing to steer and make the opportunities available to some of your most talented students perhaps help them and certainly we hope to show them the both rewards of working and the intelligence community and what they can do. let me closeith one last point, april 5, 1945, a admiral led his platoon. when gman machine gun and motar fire wounded, he stayed behind to cover of those who can walk in their own. then he personally evacuated those previously wounded. it was almost 5

dr. peters against accepting high dose chemotherapy with out and in delegation.e was ostracized by his warning. dr. peters, the one who invented the street, became concerned that in 1991 he convinced the national cancer institute to fund a clinical trial to make sure that his treatment was safe. safe. five different clinical t those five clinical trials found no advantages and out comes between conventional treatment and high dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplant. what was the price? roughly 42,000 women, 30,000 in the 1990's alone were subjected to the risk of this entirely experimental treatment. 34 $4 billion was spent. they later determined that 9000 patients died not from their cancer but from the treatment that they hope to be their cure. that is why comparative effectiveness research is important. that is why it is important to make sure that we have in this bill in the unbiased language. >> we've had a lot of debate on this. >> who seeks recognition? >> i do. i would ask you to yield two others who are seeking recognition on your site. >> what do

dr. sanjay gupta as well as peter bergen.s been looking at medical facilities in helmand province. he takes us inside a hospital at camp dwyer. take a look at his report. >> reporter: early morning, kandahar. >> we've been here just a few migts. we're already getting an idea of just how busy this hospital is. the busiest air strip supposedly in the world, trying to get patients to the hospital. we're hearing this is a very urgent case. a patient with a lot of bleeding. possible double leg amputation. >> stay out of the box, please. >> very weak radal pulses. tourniquet was turn on about 45 minutes ago. bilateral tourniquets. >> reporter: the doctor is communicating to the patient, translating, trying to figure out exactly what happened to him. we don't know much. middle-aged, afghan national. here's something, only a quarter of the patients brought here are u.s. or coalition forces. the rest are locals. >> we'll go ahead and give him some more pain medicine. yes, please, 50 again. he can handle it. >> you have no idea the sev

dr. peter zimmerman, i have had him doing research for me on this. must be done in the outer atmosphere to make the physics work. you cannot set it off at low altitude and get the really large-scale magnetic pulse that we saw from some of our high- altitude tests over the pacific. there is concern that it could do it. it could certainly have localized effects from the magnetic poles. but the one that would affect the entire country would -- effects from the magnetic pulse. 5% of cars with electronic ignitions would probably start running. many would start again, but it would have enormous disruption. the real question is, is it on the scale of the nuclear weapon or a sophisticated biological weapon? dr. grant, who headed the emp study, would tell you is in the same category. clearly others would disagree with that. done at high altitude, it would have enormous impact and we do not think terrorists are capable of making the weapon that large or getting it at high and the atmosphere. host: colonel larsen is the author of the book "your own worst enemy.

dr. geoffrey ling: there's a hook, something out of "peter pan." r. geoffrey ling is an army colonel and neurologist who's leading the revolutionizing prosthetics program. he's a physician with big dreams and little patience, especially when touring walter reed army medical center and meeting the troops he's working for. >> ling: we have a saying in the military-- "leave no one behind." and we are very serious about that. and that doesn't mean just on the battlefield, but also back at home. >> pelley: ling told us they've made great strides in artificial legs, but a good arm has never been within their grasp. >> ling: if you look at your hand, it's an incredibly complex piece of machine. what nature provides us is extraordinary. the opposable thumb, the five fingers independently moving, articulated fingers. it's fantastic what this does. >> pelley: and when you lose your hand, you've lost something that makes you human. >> ling: you're so right, scott, because think about what makes us separate from every other animal species: we have an opposable

first of all, the first comment is it's always a pleasure to be watching dr. peter morici.njoy people that have defensive answers. the second comment is maybe you can give english lessons to our politicians, not just in congress but the world over. the suggestion i do have since we're addressing the economy is that one thing that i tire of is say if i have a problem with, like, my credit card, and i'm calling to get answers to it, i'm first referred to a computer that's going to give me choices that i don't even, that's not even part of the problem, as opposed to me speaking to a real person. then, when i do get through, and i'm sure this is -- this isn't just my problem, but all of america's problem, which brings me to suggestion. we used to have call centers, that whatever the industry was, whatever you had a problem with in the world, or let's just stick with america. now, these jobs were outsourced over. maybe if we get call centers back that address transportation, health care, anything with the exception of like c-span, which i do enjoy. i enjoy talking to the real pe

it's hair to say anderson cooper, michael ware, peter bergen, dr.to get the story to our viewers. >> journalistically speaking it's men again the boys. at some point the american public is going to be asked to approve additional troops for that war if we're going to stay there and try to win it. if we're not then we need to get out. if we're going to stay there and try to win it, it's going to take more troops. we have to see if the american public has the stomach to send more troops. >>> the president will deliver a speech to the congress on health care reform. if the republicans' call to shk ahn. the political damage to mr. obama could be significant. meanwhile, critics are after the president for what they see as a wide range of missteps in his eight months since taking office. some say president obama made a tactical mistake putting congress in charge of the details on a key issue like health care reform. conservative columnist charles kraut hammer writes that president obama is in trouble and it's not congress's fault. he says the president is

peter, thank you very much. we'll continue the reporting here from all week. >>> coming up, dr.o's also here in the war zone shows us an american surgeon, a military surgeon, what he faces on a daily basis here, saving the lives of u.s. forces and afghans as well. >>> also, we'll show you some behind the scenes images from our reporting here in afghanistan. our reporters along with the marines. we'll be right back. there's a big reason to lower high cholesterol... dangerous plaque that can build up in arteries. it's called atherosclerosis--or athero. and high cholesterol is a major factor. but crestor can help slow the buildup of plaque in arteries. go to arterytour.com and take an interactive tour to learn how plaque builds up. and then ask your doctor if crestor is right for you. along with diet, crestor does more than lower bad cholesterol and raise good. crestor is proven to slow the buildup of plaque in arteries. crestor isn't for everyone, like people with liver disease, or women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. simple blood tests will check for liver pro

. >> peter alexander, thank you very much. dr. holland is a psychologist and her upcoming book "weekend at bellevue." >> thank you. >> it's not just adam goldstein, michael jackson, heath ledger, anna nicole smith, apparently all of them have drug-related deaths. what do you believe is going on here? >> it's more and more an ep dickidick -- epidemic. they're getting it not just from their doctors, they're buying it on the streets, from their parents' medicine cabinet and it's a big problem. >> when you start mixing these drugs and combining them, that's when something dangerous or deadly can happen. what are the combinations people need to be on the lookout for? what are the drug combinations most likely to result in something disastrous? >> absolutely. it's a problem with people are taking medicines from multiple sources. this is really -- because people aren't going to one doctor to get their medicines anymore, there's no one overseeing what they're doing, not one doctor making sure there's not drug interaction and one pharmacis

dr. sanjay gupta. he is at a busy field hospital. and we're joined by peter bergen. first we cover the political angles. >> i want to show on the map where kanduz is. a large number of militants were reportedly killed but also a large number of civilians. the exact number is unknown by nato, still being investigated. it was a pr disaster. but now will is this word that general mcchrystal couldn't get in touch with the top commanders early in the hours after the attack because they were out drinking. >> that is astonishing. he couldn't get into touch with his people. and within a couple days he banned drinking for all nato people under his command. >> i mean u.s. forces have not been able to drink in theater. it is surprising to me that the nato forces were. this is pr disaster, though, that the taliban makes the most of. >> right. and, of course this is a very conservative muslim country. and it's one, in fact, if you're not an american soldier or british soldier, can you drink, you know, pretty much at will in a lot of these places. so apparently i think this is lon

dr. belenson said it is a problem. >> we find 10 percent of the people are almost in danger of disenrolling each month because they cannot afford to pay for this. >> howard county's health officer peter belenson is following the debate on capitol hill and said the controversial public option may not survive. critics call it another step toward on socialized medicine. and johns hopkins neurosurgeon carson said it might be a good thing. >> what happened to the private insurance companies in canada? just like that. they were gone. because they could not compete with it. >> but dr. ca r k son said a overhaul of the health care system is still long overdue. >> we want the cost to come down to the point where individuals and families can own their own insurance. it doesn't have to be through employers. >> meantime the doctor said true health care reform can only succeed under certain conditions. >> if we don't have the vast majority of americans in the pool of insurance, then we will have a hard time with health insurance reforms of getting rid of preexisting condition exclusions, et cetera. >> another caveat in the contentious battle over expanding health care. john rydell, fox 45 news at

peter alexander, thanks very much. >>> coming up in our 8:00 hour, we'll talk to dr. nancy snyderman and a former prosecutor about how this case has been handled. is it possible there was a mistake? could they find something if they exhume the body? >>> ahead, the latest on the couple kidnapping a girl and holding her captive for 18 years. we'll talk to her attorneys in they have alzheimer's and heart disease, diabetes and cancer. and they've heard that biomedical research offers hope, that it could control, maybe even cure, their disease. senator barbara mikulski understands the importance of innovative biomedical research, for patients, their families, and our economy here in maryland. call senator mikulski today. tell her, thanks for protecting the promise of biomedical research and the maryland jobs it provides. it's not just the future, it's life. >>> still ahead, what an nbc reporter witnessed while paris jackson got a haircut in las vegas. >>> plus, are scientists getting closer to bringing extinct animals like the woolly mammoth back to life? >> live, local, l